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mushroom

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mushroom /mush·room/ (mush´rldbomacm) the fruiting body of certain fungi; some are edible and some are poisonous. See also .
mushroom
the fruiting bodies of fungi of the class Basidiomycetes. See amanita, ramaria, clavaria and cortinarius.

mushroom worker's lung
an immediate, immune complex-mediated hypersensitivity pneumonitis of humans caused by inhalation of thermophilic actinomycetes in compost.

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